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In our example, we do not have a real use for this yet, but we will soon. We
can demonstrate how it works by providing an alias that we will use later in our
SQL Map.
To create that alias, insert an element like this:

<typeAlias alias="Account"
type="org.apache.ibatis.jgamestore.domain.Account" />
This Account alias is available any time after it is defined in the configuration
process. You can use either the fully qualified name or the alias to tell i BATIS what
you want to use any time you have to supply a data type.
The framework defines several type aliases to save developers from having to
add them manually, as shown in table 3.3.

Table 3.3 Built-in type alias definitions that save you from having to type some of these very
long class names

Alias Type

Transaction manager aliases

JDBC com.ibatis.sqlmap.engine.transaction.jdbc.JdbcTransactionConfig

JTA com.ibatis.sqlmap.engine.transaction.jta.JtaTransactionConfig

EXTERNAL com.ibatis.sqlmap.engine.transaction.external.ExternalTransactionConfig

Data types

string java.lang.String

byte java.lang.Byte

long java.lang.Long

short java.lang.Short

int java.lang.Integer

integer java.lang.Integer

double java.lang.Double

float java.lang.Float

boolean java.lang.Boolean

date java.util.Date

decimal java.math.BigDecimal

object java.lang.Object

map java.util.Map

hashmap java.util.HashMap